Why Bhutto, Why Now?
Published December 28, 2007
Political voyeurism came of age with the assassination and burial of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The world looked, once again, on the face of a grief-stricken nation. This time the Pakistani people were the center of global media focus. I believed that this sad event was also a predictable one. Why? Clearly because of the return and hosanna Bhutto received in October 2007 by hordes of supporters. Her poll numbers positioned her to win the upcoming election. She returned after a self-imposed eight and one-half years of exile. On that day she narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. More than 100 bystanders killed. And those who weren’t killed in the bombings were rightly incensed over this foiled attempt during her heavily guarded entourage and motorcade.
Bhutto, who led Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and was the first female prime minister of any Islamic nation, was participating in the parliamentary election set for January 8, hoping for a third term. A terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi (October 18, 2007) killed 136 people on the day she returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile.
The conspirators succeeded this time. The immediate response from her supporters has been grief, outrage and retaliation at an unknown foe. There are riots presently, busses burned, disorder and chaos in major-city streets like Karachi post-assassination of the beloved Bhutto. CNN newscasters and others have compared her death to that of Kennedy. In fact, Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) was in Pakistan to meet with her the same night she died. This woman and her political family have deep and abiding ties to many American presidents, past and present.
She was PM when Ronald Reagan was in office, when the Berlin wall famously fell. John F. Kennedy railed against that same wall. But beneath the political cloak of Reagan and Bhutto the wall died. He died, she died. As famous comparisions abound I must ask: is it déjà vu or merely never-ending six degrees of separation in play from JFK? A touchstone, only the key words changed in the clue: where were you in Pakistan when you saw her raise her hand in a peaceful wave, for the last time?
An ironic thing happened foreshadowing her death. I rented the movie Death of a President, before leaving for Chicago on December 22nd. It is about the fictional shooting death of Bush 43 at the hands of a Muslim man. On the back cover there is a date: October 19, 2007. The day that the film proposes that President Bush would have died. That is exactly one day after the first assassination attempt on Bhutto! Like Martin Luther King, Jr., let’s go there too, three shots were fired with one fatal shot to the neck while the victim was in plain view. Like the Bush and the Kennedy family the combo of political dynasty, monarchy and Greek tragedy came together. Like King and Kennedy the exact cause of death has already come under question: did she die of a single gunshot wound to the neck, or from shrapnel lodged in her skull? We know that bullets kill people.
- Why Bhutto, Why Now?
- Published: December 28, 2007
- Type: News
- Section: Politics
- Filed Under: Politics: International, Politics: U.S., Politics: War and Terrorism
- Writer: Heloise
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Heres a less complicated opinion...
Why Bhutto, Why Now?
The Bush strategy is working both on the battlefield and diplomatically in Europe and Asia...the Islamic scum is aggregating in Pakistan and Bhutto was an easy target...
This is also a wake-up call for all the Dumbocrats and lefty-loons- it is not Bush against Islam it is Islam against the world.
JOM
December 29, 2007 @ 17:57PM — JustOneMan
Heres a less complicated opinion...
'Nuff said.
geezzz Dread the Blogcritic Geniass got me again...
I really like the substance of your remarks...
JOM
"Dumbocrats - weak on economics weaker on terror"
Dumbocrats? I thought Dumbo was an elephant(elephants - symbol of the GOP)...lol. I don't care who the next President is or Congress, whatever. The U.S.A. right now is in such terrible shape financially right now, who will bail us out. The housing market, well, i wanted to put my house up for sale maybe, in the spring. But my guess is it won't sell for what it's worth until at least the middle of the term of the next president. And I'm not alone. That alone should tell us Americans where we are headed under this current political dictatorship going on right now. Which gets us to the Pakistan and the middle east...but are we supposed to give up our financial well being for the current military agenda. The answer is evidently. We can send the people over there to fight but then, my friends, we have to help our own people survive, I would sure hope, by equipping them.
So, al-qaeda got to former Prime Minister Bhutto. Well, that's no surprise, isn't al-qaeda running wild all over Pakistan? Or is this some mystery? Oh yeah, they're up in the mountains somewhere...forgot. So let's make sure not to disturb them up there...so they can run their world domination and eventual Apocalypse from up in the safety of those mountains then...And Gen. Musharraf won't raise a stick to prevent it.
And now we are surprised something like the Bhutto assassination happened. Comparing her family to the Kennedy's is ok...for conspiracy theorists and in effect people trying to deflect the truth.
In which way has this Administration not failed us? Domestically? Internationally? Let's just say at least Internationally not many countries are really happy we police the world.
And what will get my goat is like 10 years from now people will think this was a great President, you watch, he'll buy that.
But I'm trying to make the most out of the financial issues that are out of our control. The stuff I can control is the only saving grace.
R.I.P. Prime Minister Bhutto
"And what will get my goat is like 10 years from now people will think this was a great President, you watch, he'll buy tha"
How ironic... 10 years from now all the Bush Bashing Morons will still be considered morons!
JOM
"Dumbocrats - Short on Brains and Shorter on Penis Size"
JOM, is there a single original thought rattling around anywhere in that wizened organ you laughably call a brain?
What's worrying is that you are actually one of the brighter stars in the Republican firmament...
Have you read the latest? They are saying she killed herself!!! Get that. She ducked down, hit her head and bam she's dead.
Clearly the bullet in the neck did her in. MLK was shot in the neck and so was JFK and RFK.
Heloise
ouchhh...Dread...you really showed me!! I wish I was as smart as you Dumbocrats...geez...
I find your accusation "single original thought" hillarious...especially coming from someone who mindlessly spews the same dribble - "bush lied...global warning...blame america first" crap that you just cut and paste from the Dumbractic party newsletters...
JOM
"Dumbocrats...weak on ethics..strong on plagerism"
are yo gay
i dont get this site
Plagiarism
^ Nice catch, Munchkin.
sugababe
Based upon the number of posters ---- (maybe 5-10 at best)...its obvious no one gets this site...literally and/or figuratively..
JOM
"Dumbocrats - Losers AGAIN in 2009"
Jet....
I think you have your gaydar up!
JOM
Clinton makes big boo-boo about Bhutto and Musharraf: Must-read. Politico Ben Smith just broke this story! I found it at Breitbart.com who feeds BC on its Web site. It is hilarious that Hillary AKA "genius" Clinton said that Pervez was on the ballot! She and Benazir were friends and surely she knew that Benazir was NEVER president of Pakistan but two-time PM. Her party was in the election and she was once again seeking to become PM for the third time. And people call Heloise an idiot. Eat your words people
I think Benazir was as power hungry as Musharaf or anyone else in Pakistan's politics. For over 8 years, Benazir didn't try to come to Pakistan and make any effort to make the lives of people better or raise cries of democracy. Even this time, we read so much about her so aspired 'deal' with Musharaf. But when the 'deal' failed, she jumped back to her old funkhole of democracy. This nation never saw the face of an honest politician. And the ignorance of people never ends. They still come in throngs to die in blasts meant for crooked politicians. So much for ignorance and politics!
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Very nice! I wondered when someone was going to bring up the Kennedy similarity. For those who blame Bhutto because she chose to rise up through the sunroof, we have a dead Prez who was in a convertible!
Now, what is your take on the nuke situation?